War

10/09 – 15/09. How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation. Photo digest №34

The Ukrainian military continues a powerful counteroffensive in the east and south of the country. Since the beginning of September, the defense forces have freed about 2,000 square meters of the territory of Ukraine from the Russian occupation. On September...

04/09 – 09/09. How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation. Photo digest №33

On the night of the 4th of September, Russian military shelled Mykolaiv with S-300 missiles, civil infrastructure objects were damaged. In one month, almost 10,000 people left Donechchyna as part of a mandatory evacuation (as of 26.08.22). The European Commission...

29/08 – 03/09. How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation. Photo digest №32

The Ukrainian military reports on the breakthrough of the first line of defense of the Russian forces in the south of the country. The IAEA mission departed from Kyiv to the occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP to assess danger and establish a...

23/08 – 28/08. How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation. Photo digest №31

Ukraine celebrated two public holidays in a row: 23 August — Flag Day; and 24 August — Independence Day. The latter this year coincided with a tragic date: half a year ago, on February 24, Russia launched a full-scale armed...

Fear and loathing in the USSR: what life was like during the so-called golden age of Soviet stability

The Soviet Union, the largest totalitarian neo-empire in the world, collapsed more than three decades ago. However, a generation of older people who lived in the USSR still recall (or re-imagine) it as a haven of solace and peace. It’s...

Rape as a weapon of Russia in Ukraine

“Whether you like it or not, endure it, my beauty” – Putin used a phrase that has sexual assault connotation while talking about Ukraine during a press conference at the beginning of February 2022. The veiled threat of coercion and...

How the world underestimated Ukraine

From the very beginning of its independence, Ukraine has been standing up for subjectivity on the international stage, trying to step out of the shadow and sphere of influence of Russia. World leaders slowly started to recognise the power and...

The voices of occupation. Illia. Leaving Izium.

The voices of occupation is a series of stories from people who lived under occupation and managed to get out. This is a story about Illia, a grad student in philosophy, a photographer, and a tattoo artist. He managed to...